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Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2019

Dec 19, 2019 | Media, Research & Strategy | 0 comments

by Aleks Kajstura for the Prison Policy Initiative. Excerpt below: With growing public attention to the problem of mass incarceration, people want to know about women’s experience with incarceration. How many women are held in prisons, jails, and other correctional...

State Prison Rally Highlights Lawsuit, and Horrific Conditions for Women, Trans Prisoners

Dec 19, 2019 | Calls to Action, Media | 0 comments

Article by Crescenzo Vellucci for the Davis Vanguard. Excerpt below: The CA Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation has, according to a pending lawsuit and speakers at a rally Wednesday at the agency’s downtown offices, engaged in “sexual and gender-based violence,...

Child Law Penalizes Moms for Abusive Partners

Dec 19, 2019 | Media | 1 comment

Article written by Angelika Albaladejo for Capital & Main. Excerpt below… Ingrid Archie thought she was doing everything right to protect her children. She got a restraining order against her abusive partner and moved into a domestic violence shelter with...

Videos from S&P 2019 National Convening

Oct 28, 2019 | Events, Media, Research & Strategy | 0 comments

  The 2019 Survived and Punished National Convening featured a day of panels, strategy sessions, and community building — all with a focus on launching defense campaigns and organizing to free criminalized survivors of racialized gender-based violence. Below are...

I Killed My Partner. It Saved My Life.

Sep 17, 2019 | Media | 0 comments

Powerful reflection by Arlene Adams and a beautiful photo essay by Clara Vannucci @ The New York Times. Arlene Adams draws the connections between the trauma caused by domestic violence and incarceration, the pattern of prosecuting survivors of domestic violence when...

Does Abuse Lead to Incarceration For Girls? Usually Yes

Sep 16, 2019 | Media, Research & Strategy | 0 comments

Article written by Janelle Hawes and Jerry Flores for Juvenile Justice. Excerpt below: Overall, the girls in this study had to negotiate constant mistreatment across various institutions and by multiple people with little help or relief. Furthermore, 14 of the girls...